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[Jeffery Wilson]

On 9/9/2013 7:42 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> It doesn't matter (in engineering terms) whether stuff that reaches the
> event horizon goes somewhere else or not (that's kind of the definition
> of an event horizon).  But an accretion disk outside the Schwarzschild
> radius is just standard dynamics for any super-condensed object.

What force acts on the matter to prevent it from following the usual 
swarm of elliptical orbits instead of the disk?